Vikings: One more loss would match worst start in franchise history

If the Vikings (1-6) lose Sunday at Dallas, their 1-7 record would mark the franchise's worst start since going 1-7 to begin their first season of 1961. That team won its first game before losing seven in a row. The Vikings finished that season 3-11.

"We need a win really bad for many different reasons," linebacker Chad Greenway said Wednesday. "And, if anything, just to get the stink out of here. Just kind of to get going in the right direction. ... With where we're at, this is one of the times when it's not that much fun to come to work. So we've got to change that."

If the Vikings don't do something, they are in jeopardy of having the worst season in team history. The worst winning percentage in Minnesota annals is the 1962 team that finished 2-11-1 (.179).

The most losses in Vikings history came when they went 3-13 (.188) in 1984 and 2011. At least defensive end Jared Allen, who was on that 2011 outfit, is optimistic about Minnesota turning it around.

"We can't forfeit games; we're not going to pull a Grambling and refuse to get on the bus," Allen said of the school that recently forfeited a game at Jackson State. "Zygi (Wilf, the owner) is going to pay every person in here. They better show up and play some football, that's the bottom line. That's why I'm motivated; I'm upbeat."